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So here's the deal: I've been falling in love with the ipython browser notebook. But, it turns out, having it actually in the browser is kinda annoying - it makes launching a hassle, makes you have two sets of interface chrome (a pain on small laptop screens) and in general is not wholly as awesome as it could be.
</div><div><br></div><div>So I have an idea: build a "native" ipython notebook app by using an embedded browser. This technique has already been used to produce some really nice apps - Adobe Brakets (http://brackets.io/), Light Table (http://www.lighttable.com/), and TileMill (http://mapbox.com/tilemill). These all use pretty much the same Chromium-based native app wrapper, a HTML/JS UI, and Node.js to run some "server" style components.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>I believe it would be quite easy to drop the iPython notebook interface into such a container (possibly with a few modifications), optionally swapping the Node instance in the container with Tornado.&nbsp;Brackets in particular has some neat tools to add native menus and has the ability to develop the interface in html/js without modifying the native container - from what i've seen you could download brakets and modify the html to point to an existing notebook.</div><div><br></div><div>There's still plenty of details to flesh out with this idea, but i was mostly&nbsp;wondering if this idea caught anyone's interest. I personally don't have time to work on this right now (too busy actually using iPython hah!) so i thought I'd just put it out there in case anyone else likes it enough to do something with it.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Jon</div><div>Sent with <a href="http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig">Sparrow</a></div><div><br></div></div>